I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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